Saith she, “Yet liever I were dead,
More quotes by Michael Drayton
Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort’s a cripple and comes ever slow.
The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man,
A King’s a King, do Fortune what she can.
For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.
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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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